13 February 2009

News sites have big heads

The New York Times

I’ll start this with a warning. You’re very unlikely to find this anywhere near as interesting as I do. It talks about pixels. It’s not exciting.

With that out of the way, here’s the thing. I know users scroll. Maybe you also know users scroll. Two types of people who don’t know that users scroll are marketers I work with and developers I work with (note the careful phrasing to avoid slandering all marketers and developers). After a few discussions about making the masthead on my current project tinysmall so no-one need go near their scrollwheel, I took a look around to see what some sites I like do with their masthead.

After the jump, we’ll find out together!

Remember my warning: not exciting.

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